Kevin Newcomb

Tarantella Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Santa Cruz Operation Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOC), Monday (March 19) announced partner agreements with Goliath Networks and Gold-Tech to expand its presence in the Midwest and Canada Systems integrator Gold-Tech will offer Tarantella Enterprise 3 web-enabling software to Canadian enterprise customers. The agreement will leverage Montreal-based Gold-Tech’s understanding […]

To help meet the worldwide demand of mid-size businesses for hosted e-procurement solutions, IBM Monday (March 19) announced the IBM e-marketplace hosting Service for Ariba Buyer. The company will offer the Ariba Buyer e-procurement solution worldwide in the second quarter of 2001 on a fully managed basis. Ariba Buyer allows businesses to automate and manage […]

Houston-based Portal Lifecycle Management company Mongoose Technology Inc. has reached a definitive agreement to merge with RealCommunities Inc. in a stock-for-stock transaction. As testimony that communities facilitate business transactions, the two companies first came in contact with each other through an online discussion board, RealCommunities CEO and founder Cynthia Typaldos told ASP News. “We had […]

Softricity, a developer of carrier-class application delivery platforms, and web services billing solution provider MetraTech announced Monday (March 19) an alliance to produce joint technology for delivering and metering software applications over public and private networks. “The service provider industry is on the verge of a services renaissance,” said Scott Swartz, president and CEO, MetraTech. […]

Outtask Inc., an Alexandria, Va.-based Business Service Provider (BSP), Monday (March 19) announced it has received more than $5.5 million in second-round funding from several sources, including divine Inc., Walden VC and senior management. “The past year has proven that Outtask has built a model that can financially succeed and provide our customers the best […]

Netherlands-based ASP Siennax International BV received a new round of funding this week, securing a 14 million Euro investment from key venture capital firms. This second round of funding was led by Dutch bank ABN AMRO Participaties (The Netherlands) with investments from BHF Bank (Germany), CapMan Capital Management Oy (Finland), Residentie Investments (The Netherlands), Sonera […]

Leading managed application hosting provider NaviSite Inc. (Nasdaq: NAVI) will broadcast a part of space history on the Internet when it streams footage of the 140-ton Mir space station burning up in an extraordinary celestial display upon its fiery re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere. As the exclusive streaming provider for the event, NaviSite will provide […]

WorldCom (Nasdaq: WCOM) Wednesday (March 14) unveiled a comprehensive set of managed Web hosting solutions that allow virtually any business to implement or enhance its e-business strategy in as few as 10 to 15 days. Available immediately, WorldCom is offering 18 different hosting packages designed to meet every company’s need for high-performance global Web hosting […]

The storage service provider (SSP) market has developed from a small, obscure niche into one of the most analyzed segments in the storage industry. According to IDC, worldwide spending in this market will increase at a staggering compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 134 percent, from $153 million in 2000 to $10.7 billion in 2005. […]

Micromuse Inc. (Nasdaq: MUSE), a provider of fault management and service assurance software, Tuesday (March 13) announced that I.NET, the British Telecom-owned network ASP based in Italy, has selected the Netcool suite as the core component to manage its Internet, e-commerce and Web services which are offered throughout Europe. “I.NET was founded in 1994 as […]

Mobile software developer FreeRein Wednesday (March 14) announced a strategic alliance with XUMA, an Application Infrastructure Provider (AIP), to supply the core platform for their m-Commerce wireless component and managed hosting services. Utilizing the XUMA CommerceX, ControlX and ContentX products, FreeRein will have a scalable, proven platform to provide wireless services to enterprise customers. Together, […]

Nashua, N.H., applications and systems management solutions developer Dirig Software on Monday (March 12) announced the release of its Specific Application Manager (SAM) for IBM WebSphere Application Server, providing pre-configured management for one of the industry’s most widely used application servers. The new SAM integrates into Dirig’s Fenway, xSPress and RelyENT management solutions to ensure […]